Rouxde (pronounced Rude) Cooking School is a food history and cooking comedy podcast. Food writer and cook John Houser III talks food history, cooking and interviews Chefs and food professionals about what it's like in the industry. It's funny, irreverent and informative.
This week John presents the first in a new series of food-based movie nights. This inaugural run starts with the film Ratatouille. John breaks the film down by plot, cast, production, accolades, triv…
This week John and Rebecca get revolutionary about tea. After covering Rebecca's culinary trip through New York City we get down to talking about those lovely leaves. We go through tea's history, its…
This week John covers one of his favorite topics: cookbooks. After some food news John gets into the history of cookbooks, the types of cookbooks and then wraps it up with a list of his favorite cook…
John and Rebecca get slippery this week about cooking oil. The focus this week is more on plant-based oils. We cover the different types of plant oils, what smoke points are, how peanut oil became po…
This Week John and Rebecca get scientific about one of our favorite TV food personalities, Alton Brown. We cover his life, his journey to TV and his success with his show Good Eats. We gush about Goo…
This week John and a creeped-out Rebecca get buggy with it about eating insects! We start out with food news and then we cover the multiple varieties of bugs that people eat around the world, how peo…
This week John and Rebecca have a Talk with Leandro Lagera about the awesome Charm City Night Market and it's patron, The Chinatown Collective. We cover the super cool event, some real talk and then …
This week John and Rebecca play catch up with Ketchup. We learn about it's history, how it changed when it got to America and how it took over...... THE WORLD. We also run through some fun facts and …
This week John and Rebecca get hyper about Coca Cola! While drinking this carbonated classic we learn it's history from it's druggy beginnings with John S Pemberton (the original cocaine ghost) until…
This week John is taking questions from listeners and taking their As and giving them back Qs ....... Strike that, Reverse it. We cover a wide range of topics from knife care to best food apps and ev…
John and Rebecca get nutty this week about Peanuts. We cover it's origin, how it spread around the world and a bunch of weird facts about our favorite legume. Thanks for listening! cheers!
This week John and Rebecca are back together to form the Voltron of Food Podcasts. This week we play catch up, cover some food news and then talk about our Cook, author and amazing cooking show host …
This week in part 2 of our pizza deep dive, we learn from the master. Kelly answers all of John's questions about pizza making. It's a fun talk and if you're a pizza aficionado you will enjoy the sec…
This week a Rebecca-less John is joined by Kelly Beckham who is a master of the pizza arts (is that a thing?). We talk about his love of pizza, the turning point that made him snap and the restaurant…
John and Rebecca get curdled about Tofu (and find out about John's son's impaling incident). We learn the way it's made, it's different varieties as well as some trivia. We finish with a story of a C…
John and Rebecca get pumped about spinach. After Food News, we break down it's history, some facts, and then give a tough telling about the life of Popeye The Sailor Man (it's weird). Thanks for list…
John and Rebecca get toasty about avocados. We learn it's short history, some awesome facts and then do a rundown of culinary uses for the humble avocado that goes beyond putting it on toast. We also…
This week David Carpenter is back this week to finish our conversation. We learn about his road to opening his brewery after school and find out how he plans to pick the beers he makes. We also learn…
This week John and Rebecca are graced by the brewer and co-owner of Mobtown Brewing, David Carpenter. We talk about his origin story, his love of beer and why he decided to create his dream job. Than…
John and Rebecca have a cozy catch up after a week off (for them at least). We start off with some fun food news (hope you like biscuits slathered in cinnamon icing) and then we go into John's garbag…